California Health Exchange Might Face Online-Enrollment Delay

Insurance Marketplace Set to Launch Oct. 1 but Web Sign-Up May Not Be Ready

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Anna Wilde Mathews

Aug. 22, 2013 3:53 p.m. ET

California's new health-insurance exchange, the biggest of the state marketplaces emerging under the federal health-care overhaul law, said there was a possibility consumers won't initially be able to enroll in coverage online when it is launched on Oct. 1.

Peter V. Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state agency creating the exchange, said Thursday in a meeting of its board that the agency potentially would...